Microsoft is excited to announce a new deployment service for driver and firmware updates, giving you visibility into the drivers hosted in Windows Update that are a match for your enterprise devices...
Updated Mar 17, 2021
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Folks, thanks for your comments and feedback!
Reza_Ameri , JackS582 , Karl-WE , you all touched on firmware updates and the challenges with servicing them, both in terms of having them in Windows Update to begin with and deploying them successfully from the service. We have a lot of good advice and best practices for admins and hardware partners that we'll be sharing in the engineering neighborhood for this program. See below how to join the conversation there and I look forward to chatting more with you about firmware updates. Karl-WE , thanks for the details and feedback. We'll include in our next conversations with OEMs and IHVs.
AndrewT , you will definitely have the ability to continue using the automatic deployment, with the added benefits of deferrals and the ability to to suspend individual updates.
Zman32 , Rollback is on our mind, but will not be part of the initial release. The good news is that the control over approval and scheduling minimizes the need for large scale rollbacks, since admins have the ability to deploy to pilot rings before approving for the entire enterprise.
All, please join our engineering neighborhood in the Windows Customer Connection Program, and let's continue the conversation there.
Cheers,
Nir